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WILLIAM A. BRIOKILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 81,132, dated August 18, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-WATER HEATERS FOR STEAM FIRE- ENGINES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAIPI A. BRICKILL, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented, medepand applied to use a new anduseful Water-Heater, to be Applied to and Used in 'Connection with SteamFire-Engines; and I do declare the following to be a fall, clear, andcorrect description of my invention, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, in which:

Figure 1 is a front view of my water-heater for steam fire-engines.

Figure 2-is a sectional view of*the same.

In the drawings, like parts of the invention are pointed out by the sameletters of reference.

The nature of the present invention consists in combining with a steamfire-engine a water-heater, so constructed and connected to the boilerof a steam fire-engine that the water in the same is made to passthrough the heater and become heated, so that steam may be more rapidlygenerated than if my invention were not used in connection with theengine. i v

The obiect of the invention is. to expedite, in .a.great measure, theextinguishing of fires, by supplying water, heated to very nearly theboiling-point, to theboilers of steam fire-engines, and its value willbe apprcciated more particularly in large cities, where steamfire-engines are mostly employed.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention, Iwilldescribe the construction and operation of the same. 1

A. shows a box, or receptacle for the heater B, and havingwithin. it agrate to support-the fire.

G and C arewatcr-pipes leading from the heater B to a water-tank, D, ashereinafter described; and E and E are branch-pipes, connected with andrunning from the pipes C and C to the rubber pipes or tubes F, which areintended to form the connection between the boilerof the engine and theheater B.

G andG show cocks upon the pipes C and O, which cocks may be opened orclosed, as desired, by the elongated socket-wrenches H and H, operatedin turn' by the fiat wrenches I, placed on their upper ends. I

D is uwater-tank, through tho bottom of which the end of the pipe 0cnters,while the cud-of pipeC enters the same about centrally or alittle above the centre of the tank D.

Such being the construction, the operation is as follows:

The heater may be connectcd with the boiler of a, steam tire-engine byinserting the ends of the rubber tubes in the boiler of the engine, onea short distance above the other, so that oneshall receive the coldwater from the boiler and convey it to the heater or coil 13, while theother shall receive and conduct the water, when heated, from the heaterto the boilcrot' the engine, thus establishing and maintaining a freecirculation between the heater and the boiler.

The elastic nature of the pipes or tubes F allows the engine to beplaced in any desired position in tho engine-house, or to be moved inany direction to a certain extent, without the necessity of disengagingthe heater from the engine.

The coilncction between the tubes and the boiler may-be made in anyconvenient manncr, gencrally a coupling for connecting-the two beingpreferred, .which at any moment maybe readily detached, and allow theconnection between the tubes and the boiler to-bc instantly broken.

As soon as an alarm of fire is given, the engine is detached from theheater and proceeds to the fire.

Dni-ing the absence of the engine, communication between the water-tankD and the heater B is established by opening the cooks G and G upon thepipes C and C by which the heater is supplied with water from the tankD, which, when heated, is returned to the tank, as in the case of theboiler, the object being to preserve the coil or heater.

I am well aware that the form oi" heater used, as well as of supplyingwater to'the same after the engine hasbeen detached therefrom, maybevaried, without changing the nature of my invention, which, .as alreadysetforth, consists in connecting to or combining with a steamtire-engine, aheating-apparatus, so that water 81,132 2 heated to verynearly the boiling-point may be supplied to the boiler of the engine,that steam may be more rapidly generated,\a.-nd consequently I do notwish to be understood as intending to claim any peculier arrangement ofheating-apparatus herein shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is The combination, with a. steam fire-engine,of a heating-apparatus, constructed substantially as described,

for the purposes fully set forth.

W. A. BRICKILL.

Witnesses:

A. Slime)? Dome, B. W. SPEARS.

